WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) 鈥 Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first: a bear relaxing on their hammock.
Noah Dweck took iPhone video of two young bears in their yard in Waitsfield on Tuesday with one sitting on the swinging hammock before he shooed them away.
鈥淚t was adorable. It was a funny sight,鈥 he told The Associated Press.
Dweck said he was sitting at a desk with the screen doors open in their home near the Sugarbush ski resort when he heard the jingling of the hammock. He then realized there was no wind.
鈥淪o immediately I knew it was the bears,鈥 he said. He ran upstairs and looked out the window and saw one bear looking curiously at the other bear who was hanging around on the hammock, he said. He took some iphone video and then scared the bears away. Burlington first reported on the sighting.
鈥淲e live in a very active bear basin. The bears are very used to human contact so I鈥檓 assuming they have found other people鈥檚 hammocks before," Dweck said. 鈥淭o be honest, it was pretty impressive that he didn鈥檛 fall off, or she didn鈥檛 fall off the hammock, and kind of knew how to do it. It was quite funny to see.鈥
Vermont has a healthy black bear population and sightings of and incidents with the animals have increased in recent years.
